Friday, 18 October 2013


Just a quick note reminding everyone that today we celebrate Saint Luke. He is the patron saint of painters since he is believed to have made a portrait of the Virgin based on a vision. The icon of the Madonna with child in Rome's Santa Maria Maggiore, called Salus Populi Romani, was believed to be by Luke's hand (together with a few other icons). This illumination of Saint Luke is from a Book of Hours belonging to Maria von Burgund from 1477, where we also find the ox that is his symbol as an evangelist.

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